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Filmspotting dissects two atypical "war" movies this week: Amir Bar-Lev's new documentary "The Tillman Story," which deconstructs the na...
At last! After Hours makes a repugnant return with a Listener's Choice discussion of Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1975 shock and awe (and vomit...
Special guest Michael Phillips from the Chicago Tribune sits in for Matty this week to discuss the new Australian crime drama "Animal Ki...
Hey, sports fans! As you know, Filmspotting comes to the microphones to praise films, NOT to bury them, and usually when the film in ques...
August 13: If you press Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, A, B, Start, during the title screen of this week's episode o...
August 6: Matt Singer from IFC News and the IFC News podcast sits in for Adam this week to discuss the new Cold War thriller "Farewell" a...
July 30: Check back soon for show description. Massacre Theatre is presented by the Dangerous: Memories podcast. Filmspot...
July 23: It’s a cinematic Battle Royale this week as Matty “Beefcake” Ballgame and Adam “The Cry...
July 16: Check back for show description. Also on the show: Massacre Theatre -- presented by Running Hop...
July 9: This week's Filmspotting is comprised solely of a shirtless, lupine Matty and guest host, the gorgeous, sparkly ...
June 25: With Adam and Matty both doing some traveling this week, Filmspotting forgoes it's usual weekly format for a Listener Feedback-f...
Adamâs got a Matty. Buzz has a Woody. Pixar trots out its intrepid team of toys for one more great escape with this...
June 11: Welcome back Navy Pier's Tchotchke Arena as this exciting Stanley Cup Edition of Filmspotting rolls into over...
June 4: âI mean, what are they gonna say, man, when heâs gone, huh? âCause he dies. When it dies, man. ...
May 28: Matty's in London shirking his Filmspotting blurb-writing duties, so... Please enjoy this episode with a discuss...
May 21: Adam-a-dale and Friar Ballgame wear Ridley's Scott's "Robin Hood" for a codpiece this week. Needless to say, the...
May 14: Filmspotting returns to its regularly scheduled programming this week with a discussion of the Merchant Ivory pe...
May 7: A lot of people don't realize that the Filmspotting podcast first started as a complementary forum for Adam and M...
May 3: Here it is. Five years and 299 shows in the making... Filmspotting brings you its 300th episode. Chock full of v...
April 30: Here it is. Five years and 299 shows in the making... Filmspotting brings you its 300th e...
April 23: As preparations continue for episode #300 next week, Adam and Matty find time to discuss Matthew Vaughn's meta superhero movie ...
April 23: As preparations continue for episode #300 next week, Adam and Matty find time to discuss Matthew Vaughn's meta superhero movie ...
April 16: Who doesn't love a little confrontation from time to time? As Adam and Matty take some time "off" to prepare for show #300, Fil...
April 16: Who doesn't love a little confrontation from time to time? As Adam and Matty take some time "off" to prepare for show #300, Fil...
April 9: There have been many famous movie mothers through the years: Mrs. Bates, Mommy Dearest, Mrs. Doubtfire... V.I. Warshawski, etc.....
April 2: It was probably a bad idea that Matty convinced Adam to record their discussion of the new Noah Baumbach film, "Greenberg," in t...
March 26: Matty left for vacation without writing a clever intro, so... please enjoy this show with discussions of the new film "The Runa...
March 19: Director Paul Greengrass is great at two different styles of film: gritty historical "re-enactments" (think "United 93" and "Bl...
March 18: On this long-awaited edition of Filmspotting After Hours... Adam and Matty discuss their Listener's Choice pick "The Bishop's W...
March 12: In honor of Filmspottingâs discussion of Roman Polanskiâs "The Ghost Writer," this weekâs show description is be...
March 5: And then Alice came upon one of the strangest creatures she had ever before seen. Sitting high atop a mountain of marzipan and w...
Feb 26: What do Michele Williams, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Max Von Sydow, Patricia Clarkson and Jackie Earle Haley have in common...
Feb 19: "Arthouse Adam" is back in his element this week as the Filmspotting duo discusses the new film "Fish Tank." No â not becaus...
Feb 12: Every February 14th, These United States of âMerica celebrate the pagan holiday of Saint Valentineâs Day, which commemo...
Feb 5: "No, you listen to US!" This week Filmspotting celebrates the return of Mel Gibson to the screen in the new thriller "Edge of Dark...
Jan. 29: Adam spent last weekend in Park City, Utah, dodging avalanches by ducking into theaters at the Sundance Film Festival, and a des...
Jan. 22: File under the 'When the cat's away' department. This week Adam is out-of-town kicking off his mandatory two year world-wide Fil...
Jan. 15: All of us here at Filmspotting send our thoughts and prayers out to the country of Haiti and everyone affected by Tuesday's terr...
Jan. 8: 1. Listen to a 15-minute discussion of "A Single Man," a gorgeous set-piece film starring Colin Firth as a grieving 1960s college...
January 1: Adam and Matty ring in the new year by finally getting to their discussion of James Cameron's sci-fi epic "Avatar" -- and subs...
December 31: In the latest Filmspotting After Hours, Adam and Matty share a little Christmas cheer with their Listener's Choice discussio...
December 25: Adam and Matty bid you Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays by taking the week off... but thankfully, /Film managing editor and /F...
Dec. 18: Filmspotting discusses "Up in the Air" and "Invictus," and reveals its Top 10 Films of 2009 with the help of Michael Phillips fr...
Dec. 11: This week's teaser for Filmspotting is brought to you by the same team responsible for the trailer for "Brothers," the latest fi...
Dec. 4: This week on Filmspotting, Adam and Matty try to avoid roving bands of cannibals as they travel down director John Hillcoatâ...
November 28: In Part 2 of the latest Filmspotting After Hours, Adam and Matty make their way through another batch of glorious Listener F...
November 25: In Part I of the latest Filmspotting After Hours, Adam and Matty discuss Billy Wilder's 1951 "Ace in the Hole," starring Kir...
Nov. 20: Itâs a potpourri of crazy this week on Filmspotting. First, Matty heads down to the French Quarter to grab some beignets at...
Nov. 13: Usually Filmspotting trots out an elaborate, creative, highly over-written show description. This week, however, in keeping with...
Nov. 6: O Captain! My Captain! This week, Adam and Matty make music from the heart and navigate the blackboard jungle as they stand and d...
Oct. 30: Yes, we are obviously trying to seduce you. This week, Adam and Matty decide to forgo their spot at Oxford next semester and ins...
Oct. 23: Little Sammy and the Mystery of Filmspotting IslandBy Ayn BallgameSammy was a little boy who loved making mischief (many would a...
Oct. 16: This week Filmspotting celebrates Matty's 100th episode by playing catch-up and sitting down with two films currently creating a...
Oct. 9: Dean WermerAdam, Matty, thank you so much for coming in today. As you both are well aware, the tenure committee is in its final s...
October 2: With the guys off this week, Adam and Matty welcome in special guest host Matt Singer from IFC News and the IFC News Podcast a...
September 29: On this edition of Filmspotting After Hours... Our Listener's Choice discussion of the 1967 thriller "Wait Until Dark," sta...
Sept. 25: Check back soon for show description.Also on the show: Music by Alligators, Listener Feedback and Massacre Theatre -- presented...
Sept. 18: LIVE from a makeshift dais outside the original Maple Leaf GardensQ: Ballgame, youâre coming off a tough road trip to the ...
Sept. 11: Filmspotting reviews Mike Judge's latest, "Extract" ... discuss the 5th movie in their Kurosawa Marathon, "Yojimbo" ... and pre...
Sept. 4: How âbout another hand for Sha Na Na?! Groovy. Okay, cats. Just a reminder, please avoid the Sluggo and Nancy tabs, man. Th...
August 28: EXT. FILMSPOTTING STUDIOS. DAYTIME. LOS ANGELES. TWO HITMEN SIT IN A WHITE HONDA CIVIC.KAHUNAYou really think you should be dr...
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August 14: Do I just start talking? Do I look at you or at the camera? Oh, okay. Well, uh, my name is Jeroen Van Der Rohe, and I am the ...
August 7: Hellooooooooo my lovelies! This week weâre going to be making Filmspotting a la Awesome. To begin, please find yourself a...
August 5: On this edition of Filmspotting After Hours... Our Listener's Choice discussion of the 1966 James Coburn Bond parody "Our Man F...
July 31: Whatâs up Cleveland?! So nice to be back in the City of Lights. Whatâs the deal with these iPods? You see these thin...
July 24: Remember when your mother offered you one whole dollar if you cut all the coupons out of the Minneapolis StarTribune and filed ...
July 17: Okay everyone, we need you to move back. Please! We need to establish a proper perimeter to deal with what we have here. We've...
July 10: When the moon hits your eye, be sure to grab your moon boots, chomp down on some moon pies and moonwalk over to your iPod and l...
July 3: This week... Adam and Matty consider Michael Mann's "Public Enemies," announce the winners of Filmspotting's New Hollywood Marat...
June 26: On this edition of Filmspotting After Hours... Our Listener's Choice discussion of the 1997 Lisa Kudrow-Mira Sorvino "buddy" pic...
June 19: Listen up! This is Mr. Mauve. My associates and I are currently in control of the podcast called Filmspotting. If you want to s...
June 12: As everyone knows, Adam and Matty got their start in television on the early '80s sitcom "Mixed Reviews" about two odd couple f...
June 5: What's that flying high in the sky over the John Hancock building? Is it a bird? Is it plane? No, it's the Herzog One, the magni...
May 29: FPPLE, Film Podcast seeks Podcast Listener Experience You: Must love dog racing, the collected works of Rush, and listening to r...
May 22: If you can hear this, you are part of the Resistance (or probably related to Adam and Matty). It is imperative that you listen t...
May 15: Are you ready to reeeeeeeee-vieeeeeeew! In this corner, wearing the crimson and black trunks and weighing in at combined 500 lbs...
May 14: On this edition of Filmspotting After Hours... Our Listener's Choice discussion of the 1970 sci-fi thriller "Colossus: The Forbin...
May 8: Captain's Log... Star date 5.8.9009. This is Captain Horowitz of the U.S.S. Gumption. While patrolling the outer Sanjaya Quadrant...
May 1: Welcome to Filmspotting Stadium, alongisde colorman Dregs Laplander, I'm Stewl Potash. It's a beautiful day for a podcast today, ...
April 24: With Matty in NYC for Tribeca, Filmspotting is taking a little break... hopefully this interview with "Hunger" writer/director...
April 17: To help you navigate the local multiplex this weekend, Filmspotting offers up a triptych of reviews. Starting in the food cour...
April 10: Step right up, come one, come all, ladies and gentlemen, everybody's a winner when they listen to Filmspotting! Just turn the ...
April 3: This week on Filmspotting, find out what happens when two film critics stop being polite, and start being neo-neo real. A revie...
April 1: On this edition of Filmspotting After Hours... Our Listener's Choice discussion of Akira Kurosawa's 1949 procedural "Stray Dog"...
March 27: It's hard to know who was more excited at the screening of DreamWorks' latest animated spectacle "Monster vs. Aliens" in 3-D: ...
March 20: Hello? Oh, hey man, what are you up to? Listening to Filmspotting? Thatâs awesome, dude, I love their early stuff. What? ...
March 13: It's a little known fact that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, creators of the "Watchmen" graphic novel that redefined the comic b...
March 6: On this 4th Anniversary episode of Filmspotting... Adam and Matty go to the mattresses for a review of "Gomorrah," the acclaime...
Feb 27: Adam and Matty are no strangers to sordid love triangles -- who can forget Nanette Burstein, the Asian performance artist who al...
Feb 20: A is for Adam. B is for Ballgame. C is for "The Class." Get out your primers, this week Filmspotting goes back to school and fin...
Feb. 13There once was a boyWho listened to FilmspottingFor all of his movie reviewsBut then one day he tired of their gamesAnd yelled, "C...
Feb. 11: On this pre-Valentine's Day edition of Filmspotting After Hours... Our Listener's Choice discussion of the 1988 romantic comedy...
Feb 6: Now listen very carefully, Filmspotters. If you ever want to see Matty and Adam again, you will do exactly as we say. First, you ...
Jan. 30: This week, in anticipation of the upcoming Academy Awards, Filmspotting takes a look director at Ari Folman's Oscar-nominated "...
Jan. 23: "When we say Film, you say Spotting!" This week Matty "Big Fiddy" Ballgame and Adam "White Shadow" Kempenaar pile forty of thei...
Jan. 16: This week's four-hour roadshow production of Filmspotting -- OK, 90-minute roadshow production -- is brought to you without an ...
Jan. 2: Adam and Matty never did like that strange couple down the street on "Revolutionary Road"... they always just seemed a tad diffe...
Dec. 31: On this bonus After Hours edition of Filmspotting... Our Listener's Choice discussion of "Le Samouraï" and more of your great f...
Dec. 26: In this abbreviated Filmspotting Fix edition of the show... Just how good is Mickey Rourke's performance in Darren Aronofsky's "...
Dec. 19: We interrupt your regular podcasting program to bring you Filmspotting's 'End of the Year Holiday and Winter Extravaganza' spons...
Dec. 12: This week the lads memorize their catechisms, don their short pants and uniforms, and utter a couple of Hail Marys in hopes of a...
Dec. 5: This week Adam and Matty break out their best polyester and bell-bottom ensembles for a march on the 1970s San Francisco Castro d...
Nov 28: Adam and Matty are eating turkey. Please enjoy this 'best of' show featuring discussions of Rob Epstein's documentary "The Times ...
Nov. 25: On this bonus After Hours edition of Filmspotting... Our 'Listener's Choice' discussion of "Battle Royale" and more of your grea...
Nov. 21: From the hidden F.I.L.M.S.P.O.T.T.I.N.G. lair, located deep inside a dormant volcano buried beneath the floor of Lake Michigan,...
Nov. 14: The following is a rush transcript from Thursday's special prime time edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"Regis: We wel...
Nov. 7: This week Adam and Matty -- recipients of a million dollar MacArthur Genius Grant -- have transformed the grand ballroom at the e...
Oct. 31: Halloween always reminds me about the tragic story of Filmspotting: Adam and Matty were just two healthy, happy-go-lucky kids ba...
Oct. 24: This week on Filmspotting... your hosts take a trip around London with the most chipper and ebullient tour guide ever to grace t...
Oct. 17: Accepting director Jonathan Demme's invitation, Adam and Matty joined the Buckmans this past weekend for the celebration of thei...
Oct. 10: This week, Adam adopts a terrible Southern accent and Matty adds 80 pounds and a bad wig to review Russell Crowe and Leonardo Di...
Oct. 3: It's close-out week here on Filmspotting and everything must go! We're giving you three reviews, count 'em three new reviews, all...
Sept. 26: This week's Filmspotting Joint is brimming with reviews of two new disparate war films. First up, Sgt. Kempenaar and PFC Ballga...
Sept. 23: Finally, after a hectic two months of festivals, weddings, and broken promises, the boys found time to sit down and record a l...
Sept. 19: "Say hello to our little friends ..." This week, Adam and Matty perform the entire show using their best Bobby De Niro and Al P...
Sept. 12: George Clooney joins Brad Pitt for some Dumb and Dumber antics in the latest Coen Bros. comedy "Burn After Reading." Will the B...
Sept. 5: "Clip show, clip show, CLIP SHOW!" Exhausted and relieved, Adam and Matty are performing an ad hoc Conga line around the Filmspo...
August 29: Matty couldn't complete his big post-production task -- writing the clever show description that goes here -- before jetting o...
August 22: "Bueller? Bueller?" Class is in session this week as Matty and Adam offer up a dialectic deconstruction of "Hamlet 2," directo...
August 15: Max Fischer: "Were you in the sh*t?" / Herman Blume: "Yeah, I was in the sh*t." As you can probably imagine, Adam and Matty ha...
August 8: Here's the thing about the film industry, man, are you listening, because, here's the thing, I'm just saying there's not enough...
August 1: Glory days... while Adam and Matty may share common Midwestern roots, turns out they enjoyed quite disparate high school experi...
July 29: We love you, really. With all due respect, you're a beautiful listener. You're a credit to your race... Adam and Matty search f...
July 25: Prepare to be spoiled. In an unprecedented venture, the esteemed Michael Phillips of the World's Greatest Newspaper joins the bo...
July 18: Biff! Bam! Pow! It's here. It's finally here. The podcast you've been waiting months to hear has arrived... Adam and Matty, wait...
July 12: Time to take a Magical Journey of Mystical Wonder as we review one of Matty's most anticipated movies of the year, "Hellboy II: ...
July 5: This week, in honor of America's celebration of its independence, Filmspotting's resident Yankee Doodles mark the Fourth of July ...
June 27: Alright campers, grab your suitcases, strap grandma to the roof, and hop into the old Griswald family station wagon... we're off...
June 20: Eschewing the trend adopted by seemingly every other media outlet this week, Filmspotting steadfastly refuses to incorporate the...
June 18: It was an evil podcast from the beginning -- a podcast that was born bad... Adam and Matty huddle together in the dark for anot...
June 13: Filmspotting SMASH! It's a summer blockbuster Lollapalooza this week as Adam and Matty tackle two new releases. First up on the ...
June 6: From whirling dervishes to whirling red pandas (who sound an awful lot like Dustin Hoffman), this week Matty and Adam ogle a scru...
May 30: Slip on your Manolo Blahniks, lounge about in your best Dior, and hold onto your Louis Vutton Beverly Clutch as Filmspotting bol...
May 22: Dun-da-dun-daa, dun-da-daaa ... That's the sound of George Lucas, Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg teaming up to trade-in on M...
May 16: "A man distracted is a man defeated." How distracted were Adam and Matty by Ricky Jay and company's performances in "Redbelt," t...
May 9: With a summer movie line-up filled with the likes of Indy, Iron Man and Batman, good olâ Arthouse Adam listed "Standard Oper...
May 6: Cure your Cinco de Mayo hangover with some hair of the dog and a slug of Filmspotting After Hours. Adam and Matty cobble together...
May 2: This week... What is this Iron Man? A small arthouse documentary on the legendary heavy metal band Black Sabbath? The long awaite...
April 25: This week... Filmspotting previews the glorious popcorn season ahead with a countdown of their Top 5 Most Anticipated Summer M...
April 18: Just when you feel like you're not getting enough full frontal male nudity, ribald oral sex jokes and Paul Rudd in your life, ...
April 11: Adam and Matty are in Florida on vacation/watching movies at the Sarasota Film Festival and can't pry themselves away to say a...
April 4: On this week's show... Matty promises not to do his Michael Caine impression as long as Adam doesn't break out his Saffron Burr...
April 2: I was getting pretty tired of listening to reviewer after reviewer blasting Haneke for having the gall to imply that torture ...
March 28: This week... Adam and Matty ship off for an extended tour of duty with Ryan Phillippe as they discuss "Stop-Loss," the latest ...
March 21: This week Adam outfits Matty in requisite black sweater and beret and forces him to enjoy an arthouse double feature. Will Mat...
March 18: Put the kiddies to bed, don your best housecoat, break out the scotch (any type of Glen will do), and join Adam and Matty for s...
March 14: The boys are back after a week off and ready to blow off some steam, fight the man, and storm the old Chicago Amphitheatre alo...
March 7: Filmspotting is celebrating its three-year anniversary with a week off... Adam is spending time with the kids who no longer kno...
February 29: For all those who wondered what would have happened if Pete Best and Ringo Starr had performed with The Beatles at the same...
February 22: This week, when they're walkin' down the street (yeah), and they see a little ghost (what), what are Matty and Adam gonna s...
February 15: "In Bruges," the new dark comedy from playwright-turned-director Martin McDonagh, finds hitmen Colin Farrell and Brendan Gl...
February 8: Adam counts Woody Allen as one of his favorite directors; Matty, unfortunately, has not been able to muster much love for Wo...
February 1: On this week's show, Matty and Adam give a "C'est bon!" to Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis," the Oscar-n...
January 25: Adam and Matty return from Sundance without any good Paris Hilton stories, but with a lot of great things to say about their...
January 21: Filmspotting checks in with its second -- and, unfortunately, final -- Sundance Dispatch. Adam and Matty recap the past two ...
January 19: SpoutBlog's Karina Longworth joins Adam and Matty for their first Sundance '08 Dispatch. The trio reflects on the best and w...
January 18: On this week's show... will Adam and Matty run screaming from or screaming to producer J.J. Abrams' Godzilla-meets-Blair-Wit...
January 11: Daniel Day-Lewis' "Milkshake" brings all the Filmspotting boys to the yard as Adam and Matty finally get a chance to discuss...
January 4: This week, Adam and Matty top off 2007 with a potpourri of Top 5 lists, including Worst Movies of the Year, Most Annoying Per...
December 21: Break out the Guy Lombardo, put on your tackiest Christmas sweater, grab a steaming hot cup of Ovaltine, and curl on up to ...
December 14: This week, Adam and Matty are on full quirk alert for a discussion of Jason Reitman's ("Thank You For Smoking") breakout To...
December 7: Director Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's acclaimed 2001 novel "Atonement" is garnering a lot of critical buzz. Will ...
November 30: This week on the show... Adam and Matty crash writer/director Noah Baumbach's latest dysfunctional family throwdown "Margot...
November 21: Jewels and binoculars hang from the heads of Matty and Adam in this week's abbreviated Thanksgiving edition of Filmspotting...
Nov 16: This week your hosts travel to the apoocalyptic near-future with lunchbox idols Justin Timberlake, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Dwa...
Nov 9: This week... Filmspotting abides. It's a special Coen Brothers Edition of the show as the boys review Joel and Ethan's new thrill...
Nov 2: On this week's show... Adam and Matty spend about as much time together on screen in "American Gangster," Ridley Scott's quasi-ep...
October 26: On this week's show... Matty and Adam dissect actor-turned-tabloid-celeb-turned-director Ben Affleck's directorial debut "Go...
October 19: On this week's show... Adam (ever the good son) and Matty (always the black sheep) discuss "We Own The Night," James Gray's ...
October 12 (Chicago Public Radio): Our kind of town, Chicago is... Filmspotting covers the 43rd Annual Chicago International Film Festiv...
October 5: Two movies ride into this week's Filmspotting... will only one ride out? The boys shoot up "The Assassination of Jesse James ...
September 28: Adam and Matty review Sean Penn's latest film as writer/director, "Into the Wild" ... Plus, Listener Feedback, Massacre Th...
September 21: I am here as you are here as you are me and we are all together... well, Adam and Matty are together anyway in their disap...
September 14: When we last left Adam and Matty in Toronto, the fledgling duo seemed all hugs and kisses with few disagreements to mar th...
Adam sits down with Sam Riley, who portrays enigmatic Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis in the new film "Control." Check out the movie's ...
Days 3 and 4 of the Toronto Film Festival are in the books, and Filmspotting has conquered a combined 17 more films. Adam was mesmerized...
Adam and Matty have seen a combined 15 movies through the first two days of the Toronto International Film Festival. Which stood out as ...
September 7: The movie gods and Fate herself conspired to release Michael Davis's action movie/action movie send-up "Shoot 'Em Up" just ...
August 31: It says something about the sheer number of compelling films there are to see at Sundance that back in January Adam and Sam l...
August 24: You could argue that the definitive version of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" has already been made ... twice. What was...
August 17: Judd Apatow has had a pretty good run lately. "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up," both written and directed by Apatow,...
August 10: There have been plenty of comedic fairy tales in the 20+ years since "The Princess Bride," but few have so obviously taken th...
August 3: As charter members of the Bourne "Supremity" fan club, Adam and Sam were in a perfect position to be let down by the third film...
July 27 (Chicago Public Radio Edition): Once you've seen Kasi Lemmons's new film "Talk To Me," you'll understand why it's nearly impossib...
July 20: Steve Prokopy (aka Capone) from Ain't It Cool News joins Adam this week for a review of "Rescue Dawn," Werner Herzog's dramatic ...
July 13: When Adam and Sam announced earlier this Spring that they were going to skip "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (as the...
July 6: Michael Moore and Michael Bay are about as different as two directors can be. One traffics in left-wing propaganda, hoping to aff...
June 29: Much of the new collaborative film "Paris, Je T'aime" is, appropriately, in French. And if you haven't seen the film, Adam and S...
June 22: A week after lightly criticizing Filmspotting favorite Steven Soderbergh's new film "Ocean's Thirteen," Adam gets a chance to sp...
June 15: Since following up his twin Oscar nominations [and Best Director win] in 2000 with the blockbuster "Ocean's Eleven," Steven Sode...
June 1: "Knocked Up," writer/director Judd Apatow's follow-up to 2005's hilarious "The 40 Year-Old Virgin," burdens its portly, uncouth l...
May 25 (Chicago Public Radio): By all accounts there are millions of people around the world who have spent the past year in feverish ant...
May 18: Sarah Polley and the late Adrienne Shelly started their careers giving memorable performances in films not unlike the ones that e...
May 11 (Chicago Public Radio): Back in 2002, "Trainspotting" director Danny Boyle put a new spin on the zombie genre with "28 Days Later....
May 3: Adam and Sam kick off the 2007 summer movie season with a look at this year's entry in the superhero franchise sweepstakes: Sam Ra...
April 27: Thanks to the cult success of his zombie movie send-up "Shaun of the Dead," director and co-writer Edgar Wright's follow-up, "H...
April 20: From the podcasters who interviewed the men who saw every action movie ever made... it's Adam's interview with the team behind ...
April 13: Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino grew up watching double-bills of made-on-the-cheap genre movies at grimy theatres in LA ...
April 6: What happens when Adam and Sam can't make it to an early screening of the most anticipated film of the year ("Grindhouse")? They...
March 30: Bong Joon-ho's "The Host" has been picking up critical accolades since its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006. Bong'...
March 23: Quick... name three films about grieving men that aren't also about sports, dating, and/or revenge. It's not a common subject, ...
March 16: The last time Adam and Sam had a conversation about the film adaptation of a Frank Miller graphic novel, it was March 2005, and...
March 9: When Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck accepted the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for "The Lives of Others," Germans everywher...
March 2: Inspector Harry Callahan took down a Zodiac-like killer with a bullet to the chest back in 1972's "Dirty Harry," but that was in...
Feb. 23: FBI agent Robert Hanssen sold state secrets to the Soviets for nearly 20 years. When he was finally caught in 2001, his crimes w...
Feb. 22: Earlier this morning, Filmspotting appeared on Chicago Public Radio's "Eight Forty-Eight" with host Steve Edwards to discuss thi...
With Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker virtual locks for Best Actress and Best Actor at next weekend's Oscars, you'd think that there woul...
Feb. 16: Earlier today, Adam and Sam were given a few minutes on Chicago Public Radio's weekday magazine show "848" to determine if Jacqu...
In order to properly discuss David Lynch's new film "Inland Empire," Adam and Sam were given a one-show licence to turn Filmspotting into...
Maybe the first Sundance is always the best. Take a glance at festival reports from Sundance veterans and you'd think that Park City had ...
Wednesday at Sundance turned into a long press day and the only film we had a chance to see together was Craig Brewer's "Hustle & Flow" f...
By the end of day four in Sundance, Adam and Sam had seen the very best of the festival ... and the very worst. In their third Sundance D...
Today from Sundance, Adam and Sam recount the highs and lows of their third day at the festival, and, among other things, admit to being...
For their first report from the Sundance Film Festival, Adam and Sam tackle five new films and come to the conclusion that either A) Your...
If 2006 was the year of the Mexican director, then it's appropriate that Adam and Sam finish their [gratuitously long] look at the year's...
If you go by the calendar, Adam and Sam are at least a week late with their best of 2006 lists. Thankfully, their tardiness can be explai...
Busted stuff: Several of you have emailed about our broken archive links -- both the months and individual shows. We know. Do we know how...
How low has the great Steven Soderbergh fallen when a review of his latest film, The Good German, is relegated to an end-of-the-month hol...
On this Chicago Public Radio edition: Filmspotting vs. The Oscar Hopefuls...A big screen adaptation of the 1981 Tony Award-winning Broadw...
It's fair to say that 99% of the people who go to see Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness" know exactly what the movie is going to do...
With the mug shot, the DUI and the deeply offensive anti-Semitic remarks, it was unclear whether Mel Gibson would see "Apocalypto" releas...
When New Line courted church-goers with its new film "The Nativity Story", it's likely they didn't bother noting that the film was direct...
The artistically ambitious will inevitably be accused of pretension. And so it goes for Darren Aronofsky and his new film "The Fountain."...
If you didn't read Eric Schlosser's 2001 best-selling expose of the meat packing industry, "Fast Food Nation," you probably know someone ...
Issue #1: A lead character so boring he claims not to like cookies. Issue #2: A reclusive novelist whose "brilliant" writing literally di...
The writer/director team that partnered on "Amores Perros" and "21 Grams" have been trading public blows all year about who deserves more...
On this Chicago Public Radio edition of Filmspotting ... Cynical Civics & Pornographic PatriotismThree films, three contradictory visions...
When Sophia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette" debuted at Cannes earlier this year, the audience reportedly responded with "lusty boos and smat...
On this Chicago Public Radio edition of Filmspotting ... With "Memento," Christopher Nolan made a film so intricate, exciting and origina...
In a century that saw no shortage of charismatic, paranoid and sadistic dictators, among the 20th century's most enduring figures is Ugan...
Festival of Saints: On this Chicago Public Radio edition of Filmspotting... Reviews of three films playing at the 42nd Annual Chicago Int...
The Science of Deception: If the 2002 Hong Kong thriller "Infernal Affairs" was a song and you had to pick a director to cover that song,...
The way critics are raving about Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's "Half Nelson," you could be forgiven for thinking that the film is being con...
On this Chicago Public Radio edition of Filmspotting: Steven Zaillian's "All The King's Men" should be the type of film that gets release...
The studio behind "Idiocracy," 20th Century Fox, did everything it could to guarantee that Mike Judge's new film failed at the box offic...
Hey there, Brian De Palma:Remember when you directed "Carrie," "Dresed To Kill," "Scarface" and "The Untouchables"? That was awesome. Maj...
Superman dies under mysterious circumstances. Is it his girlfriend's studio mogul husband? The flaky fiancée? Or is it suicide? Sounds l...
The most ambitious Cinecast so far ... Reviews of three films from five different directors, including the re-release of Jean-Luc Godard...
On this week's Cinecast, a review of Fever Pitch, the new romantic comedy from the Farrelly Brothers. Loosely adapted from the novel by "...
This week on Cinecast, your unflappable hosts nearly come to blows during a heated discussion of the new Robert Rodriguez film "Sin City...
Inspired directorial vision or dull magic show? That's the crux of this week's review of Neil Burger's "The Illusionist." The first of tw...
Hear our complete interview with Brick writer/director Rian Johnson. Thanks to Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) and KPCC in Pasadena for prod...
If any film was going to bring peace to Adam and Sam's increasingly contentious relationship (name changes, over-hyped snakes, and movies...
"Old School" + "Revenge of The Nerds" = "Accepted." Pretty simple formula. Instead of a bunch of 30 somethings starting a fraternity, Bar...
On this Chicago Public Radio edition of Filmspotting: Planes, Snakes and Automobiles ... All aboard the yellow microbus! Mom and dad (at ...
Oliver Stone has been called a lot of things -- provocateur, muckraker, conspiracy theorist -- but he has never been accused of lacking a...
With Sam honeymooning somewhere in the back woods of Wisconsin, Chicagoist.com arts writer Scott Smith drops by for a review of the new c...
How do you take the pleasure out of a "guilty pleasure"? Hire Michael Mann to direct. Unflappable and existentially fraught super cops Cr...
After praising mainly the performances of William Powell and Myrna Loy in "The Thin Man," Adam and Sam approached the second film in thei...
On this Chicago Public Radio edition of Filmspotting: Narfs, Scrunts and Inter-Species Erotica ... oh my. While folks in Hollywood held t...
The works of novelist Philip K. Dick have been turned into big budget action spectacles like "Blade Runner," "Total Recall," and "Minorit...
It's the summer of 2003. You ask 100 random people the likelihood that "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl" will be t...
When director Bryan Singer left the X-Men franchise to make "Superman Returns," movie fans had two big questions: "What's going to happen...
Considered by many (including Werner Herzog himself) to be the most disappointing collaboration between director Herzog and star/madman K...
Three quick reviews instead of one long one. That was the brilliant plan. To the surprise of no one, however, Adam and Sam are physiologi...
Although not Herzog's first choice for the title role (Jack Nicholson passed, then Jason Robards, Jr. fell ill during shooting), Klaus Ki...
Director Jared Hess couldn't possibly have imagined the impact his debut film "Napolean Dynamite" would have, particularly on young movie...
Just days after completing work on their "Nosferatu" collaboration, Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski started shooting an adaptation of play...
An 80 year-old director makes a movie about a 30 year-old public radio show. OK, so this isn't typical summer fare. That being said, the ...
After a somewhat mixed response to the first film in Filmspotting's six week Herzog/Kinski Marathon, 1972's "Aguirre: The Wrath of God" -...
Judging by the trailer, "Bring It On" director Peyton Reed's latest film "The Break-Up" seems pretty conventional fare: boy (Vince Vaughn...
Until the release of last year's widely and justifiably praised "Grizzly Man," veteran filmmaker and documentarian Werner Herzog was argu...
In the People vs. Brett Ratner, Filmspotting sides (just barely) with the defendant. For X-Men 3: The Last Stand, 20th Century Fox filled...
"The Da Vinci Code" ... Religious Movies ... Fitting subject matter for Cinecast's first show re-christened as Filmspotting. With Sam ou...
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. Instead of trying to narrow down our Top 5 Performances of all-time -- a quixotic task if th...
Adam and Sam worked out the math before they started recording the 100th episode of Cinecast and figured the show would clock in at just ...
As Cinecast's 100th episode quickly approaches, Adam and Sam take a look back at their recent six-week Musicals Marathon and hand out the...
Inevitable, and yet still unimaginable for many Americans, "United 93" hits theaters as the first Hollywood film to deal explicitly with ...
Six weeks after hearing James Cagney declare himself a "Yankee Doodle Dandy," Liza Minnelli, as Sally Bowles, ends our Musicals Marathon ...
When Cinecast asked listeners in an online poll last week which new film looked most interesting -- "The Sentinel," "Silent Hill" or "Ame...
It only seems fair that a week after Sam's semi-dismissal of the classic "West Side Story," Adam responds with his own semi-blasphemous ...
It took five years for writer/director Rian Johnson to get his debut film made, and as far as Cinecast is concerned, it was worth the wai...
Cinecast Takes Manhattan-Part II (Recorded in Brooklyn): Viewed chronologically, the first three films in the Musicals Marathon ("Swing T...
Cinecast Takes Manhattan-Part I (Recorded in Brooklyn): When the great Sidney Lumet's new film "Find Me Guilty" was pulled from theaters ...
Three films into a six-part Musicals Marathon, Adam and Sam realize, to their dismay, that theyâve nearly exhausted their supply of ...
Spoofs, farces, even mockumentaries are common enough in theaters. But the true satire is a rare beast. And so it was refreshing to see t...
In honor of this week's Top 5 Twist Endings countdown, Cinecast decided to throw in a twist of their own -- a guest host. With Sam away...
This just in: Ginger Rogers is a hottie.The Musicals Marathon, like the previous Cinecast marathons, is intended to fill in the gaps in ...
Sometimes you can have all the right ingredients -- venerable source material (Alan Moore and David Lloyd's graphic novel indictment of T...
"Give My Regards To Broadway," "Harrigan," and "Over There" -- all penned by "Yankee Doodle Dandy" subject George M. Cohan -- aren't exac...
Night Watch: Ever wonder what would happen if you took a half dozen of the biggest blockbusters from the last 30 years, added a liter of...
Floating Weeds/Top 5 Cop Movies: By the end of the Overlooked Auteurs Marathon, Adam and Sam were starting to feel like selfish lovers. I...
16 Blocks: Even the most optimistic movie lover will be quick to admit that the first couple of months in any year are not the greatest. ...
Tokyo Story/Oscar Picks Part II: Tarkovsky taught us patience; Ozu tested that patience. Just one week after taking on two of Andrei Tar...
North Country/Mrs. Henderson Presents: In any other year, Niki Caro's "North Country" and Stephen Frears' "Mrs. Henderson Presents" might...
Overlooked Auteurs/Oscar Blunders: For part two of the Overlooked Auteurs Marathon, Cinecast attempts to contribute something meaningful ...
Tristram Shandy: Want to avoid the inevitable criticism that your movie adaptation doesn't hold a candle to the book it's based on? Choos...
Overlooked DVD Picks of the Week: With so many great road movies to choose from for last week's Top 5, Adam and Sam had a couple left ove...
Thumbsucker/Top 5 Road Movies: Taking a brief digression from their Overlooked Auteurs Marathon for a movie they overlooked in 2005, Ada...
Transamerica: Sharing elements from such disparate sources as unflinching, issue-driven art house films and road trip comedies, writer/di...
Overlooked Auteurs #2/Most Anticipated Movies: After having their eyes opened to the visceral charms of Samuel Fuller last week with "Sh...
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada: When actors become directors, it's hard not to watch their films through the filter of their scr...
Overlooked Auteurs #1/Murder Mysteries: Having just filled in the gaps of a spotty Hitchcock education with a six-week Master-of-Suspens...
Bubble: If you're a major filmmaker and make a movie starring non-actors for less than $2 million dollars -- and you release it simultane...
Hitchcock Marathon #6/Top 5 Movies with Narrators: Movie narration gets a (largely deserved) bad rap, but Adam and Sam manage to cobble ...
OK, so video podcasting is not for the faint of heart. After four remarkably tepid episodes of Cinecast A/V, Adam and Sam took some time...
The New World: Lyrical, elliptical, discontinuous, oblique... Sam and Adam bust out the Art Film Dictionary for their discussion of Terre...
Best/Worst of 2005 (Part II): Cinecast #70 continues with Massacre Theatre, Listener Feedback and our Top 5 Movies of 2005.Music by Jude ...
Best/Worst of 2005 (Part I): Since its debut last March, Cinecast has spent roughly 200 hours at the movies. For this special 2005 Year i...
Hitchcock Marathon #4/Top 5 Cheating Hearts: If the idea behind the Cinecast Marathons is to finally see what all the fuss is about -- w...
Match Point: Woody Allen's new film "Match Point" was originally set in the Hamptons on New York's Long Island. A Hitchcockian tale of a ...
Hitchcock Marathon #3/Tragic Love Stories: Half-way through a six-week Master of Suspense Marathon, Adam and Sam come to a fork in the r...
Brokeback Mountain: If you're tuning in to hear Adam and Sam play devil's advocate to the of heaps of praise that "Brokeback Mountain" i...
Munich: For the past couple of decades, Steven Spielberg has oscillated between history and fantasy -- "The Color Purple," "Empire of the...
Hitchcock Marathon #1 - The 39 Steps: Six weeks of tongue in cheek slasher pics have put Adam and Sam in the mood for more classic fare....
King Kong: The undisputed "big movie" of the holiday season, Peter Jackson's follow up to his Oscar-winning "Lord of the Rings" trilogy h...
Horror Marathon Week #6 - Evil Dead 2: Whether by accident or design, Adam and Sam managed to stock their Horror Marathon with as many c...
Syriana: Though falling just shy of true greatness (because, as you know, we here at Cinecast are the final arbiters of greatness), writ...
Shopgirl: If Adam had spent more time with his in-laws Thanksgiving weekend, Cinecast might not have bothered with a review of what Sam ...
Aeon Flux: An exercise in what might have been, director Karyn Kusama's (Girlfight) Aeon Flux establishes an interesting, if mostly fami...
Pride and Prejudice: Only the most obsessive Jane Austen fanatic could have been clamoring for another adaptation of "Pride and Prejudic...
In this Dysfunctional Family edition of Cinecast A/V, Adam goes soft core and recommends a cinephile-friendly (or is that 'SKIN-a-phile'...
Horror Marathon #3 - Suspiria: Dario Argento's 1977 Italian horror film "Suspiria" may not be widely known among average cinephiles, but...
Walk the Line: The music of Johnny Cash is alive and well in director James Mangold's Cash biopic "Walk The Line" -- even as performed b...
Horror Marathon #2: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: "The podcast which you are about to hear is an account of the tragedy which befell a gr...
The Squid and the Whale: Indulgent, absent a true protagonist, and maybe even a little condescending to its intended highbrow audience, ...
Horror Marathon - Week 1: Dawn of the Dead: For us, the scariest part about setting off on a six-week Horror Marathon was the fear of in...
In the third installment of Cinecast A/V, Sam stretches his limber ballerina legs and the definition of 'War Movie', while Adam is man e...
Jarhead: Based on Anthony Swofford's bestselling 2003 memoir of the same name, "Jarhead" has an interesting -- and relevant -- story to ...
Capote: Everyone involved in the new film "Capote" shows a lot of restraint -- star Philip Seymour Hoffman, putting on an acting clinic ...
"Winchester '73" & Top 5 Biographical Portrayals: According to Adam, Jimmy Stewart looks uncomfortable in denim. These and other profoun...
In the second installment of Cinecast A/V, Adam gets in touch with his inner basket case, while Sam finds his inner thug in order to bri...
Good Night, and Good Luck: Perhaps a victim of unfairly heightened expectations, director George Clooney's new film about Edward R. Murr...
"A Fistful of Dollars" & Top 5 Soundtracks: Who would be the last man standing in a steel-cage match between Western heroes John Wayne a...
Admit it. You've got a fever. And the only prescription is more Cinecast. Well, the doctors are in. Every Thursday, Sam and I will revea...
Elizabethtown: Never has the absence of John Cusack been felt more profoundly. Writer/director Cameron Crowe's newest film comes 20 year...
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: It's not uncommon for Adam and Sam to disagree with each other now and again. But it's a...
Oliver Twist: Despite approaching the film with some trepidation that it would be an uninspired addition to the Roman Polanski flimograp...
In a feat of mathematics equalled only by whatever the hell Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhall were blathering about in "Proof," Adam a...
Proof: An intricately constructed story about math and madness adapted from the award-winning play by David Auburn, director John Madden...
A History of Violence: A quick look at Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg's career reveals the director's obsession with exploring the ...
Serenity: Writer/director Joss Whedon's talent for bringing humor and unexpected depth to a genre that frequently favors special effects...
